Survey On Nutritional Therapy

EDM number 2530 in 1992-93, proposed by Peter Hain on 27/10/1993.

That this House welcomes the results of a survey of the attitudes of Right honourable and honourable Members to nutritional therapy, dietary supplements and complementary medicines which shows that of those Members responding 80 per cent. believe that consumers should retain the freedom to buy the dietary supplements and herbs of their choice, that 67 per cent. believe that dietary supplements can play an important role in health promotion, that no Members responding to the survey believed that dietary supplements currently available over the counter are dangerous and should be banned, that 81 per cent. believe that general practitioners should make available specialist advice on dietary supplements to their patients and that 70 per cent. believe that nutritional therapists should receive more support from the Department of Health; congratulates the Society for the Promotion of Nutritional Therapy on organising the survey; and urges the Secretary of State for Health and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to take note of its findings.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.